spotlight europe 2009/08, September 2009: Europe begins at home

Abstract

The European policy of the forthcoming German government is bound to change, partly as a result of the new institutional framework. On the one hand there is the ruling of the German Constitutional Court. And on the other hand it will become necessary to play by the EU’s new rules of the game. Can Germany continue to support the trend to more European integration and, more importantly, will it have a desire to do so?